The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-08-29
womAWs OPPORTUNITY.
Yesterdays Sermon BY the Rev. DR.,
Talmage.
The Homo the Trae sphere or Wo
mnn-Hsr Pesities . Throne
ON Top or Thrones.

dOu crehteo man In his own image, the
Imsge Of God created He him; male
andfemale created He them" Genesis
!, q. Following is the sermon In foil:
In other words, God, who can make
no mistake, made man and woman
for specific work and TO move In par.
ticular spheres-man to be regnsnt In
his realm; woman TO be dominant in |
hers. The boundary line between
Italy and .Swiix ,rlaud, between EGG.
land and Scotland. Is not more thor.
oughly marked than this distinction |
between the empire masculine and
the empire feminine. 90 entirely dis.
similar are the fields to which God
called them that you can no more
compare them than you can oxygen
and hydrogen, water and grass, trees
and stars. All this talk Of the superi.
ority Of ono sex to the other sex Is an
everlasting waste OF ink and speech.
A jsweler may have scale so delicate
that he may weigh the dust Of dia.
monds; but where are the scales 30
delicate that you can weigh In them
affection against affection, sentiment
against sentiment, thought against
thought, soul against soul q mana world
against q womsn's world? You
come out with your stereotyped 70.
marx, the mau ia superior TO the
woman In intellect; and then open
on my deck the swarihy iron.typed,
thunder. bolted writings OF Harriet
Mar,ineau, Elizabeth Browning and
George Eliot. You come on
with your stereotyped remark about
woman's superiority TO man In the
item Of affection; but / ask you where
was there more capacity TO love than
In John the disciple, and Robert Nc.
Cheyne the Scotch man, and John
summerHeld the Methodist, and
Henry Martin the missioraryf The
heart Of those men was so large, that
after you had rolled into Il two bemjs-
phsrer, there was room still left 10
marshal the hos,s OF Heaven, and act
up the throne Of the eternal Jehovah.
I deny TO man the throne intellectual.
deny 10 woman the throne sfIec.
tional. No human phraseology will
ever defoe the spheres, while there Ia
an intuition by which We know when
man Ia In his realm, and when A
woman IL In her realm, and when
either Of them is out OF Il. No HING.
ling Legislature ought TO attempt "a
make q definition, or 10 say; "Tbls /,
the line and that IL the lima" NV
theory 10 that III woman wants 10 vote
she ought to vote, and that ifamau
wants TO embroider and keen touse,
he ought TO be allowed TO embroide,
and keep house. There are mssculIn,
women and there are stieminate men,
Ny theory 10, that You have no risht IA
Interfere with any ones doing anythins
thai 10 righteous. Albany and Wash
ington might as well decree by leyIsla
ton how high a brown thrssl q,
should fy. or how deep trcu, shoulf
plunge, AZ 70 try 10 seek out the high
or the dep,h OF womsn's duty. The
question Of capacity will se,tle finally
the whole question. the whole sub
feet. When q woman 10 prepared "a
preach. she will prfach, nor neither
conference or presbytery can hinder
her. When Q womsn IN prepared h
move In highest commercial epheree
she will have great influence on the
exchsnge, and no bears OF trade car
binder her. want woman 10 under
stand that heart and brain ran ove,fly
any barrier that politicians NAV set up
and thst nothing can keep her back OF
keep her down but the question OF In,
capacity.
There are women, know, Of mos
undesirable na'nre, who wander or
and down the countrv--having M
homes a their own, or iotakine thell
osn homss--talkinR about theli
Ilghls; and We know very we'll tha
they themselves are az neither Il
vote. nor q, IN keep houss Thei
mission seems to he IN iumiliate IN,
two sexes q, the thought OF whs. am
one OF MS might become. No onI
would want 10 live under the law
that such women would enact, or u
Rave cae, upon society the children
that such women would raise. Bu,
shall STOW you this morn
Ing that the best right
that women can own she alresdy ha
In her possession; that her position IN
this country at this time 70 not one o
commisserstiou, but one Of oongratu
lstion thst the grandeur and power o
her realm have never vet been appre
cis'ed that che si's today on q thronl
, ~ high that ell the thrones OF eartl
! piled on ton Of each other would no
make for her q footstool. Here IL the
platform on which she stands. Ava,
down below u are the ballot boz. AM
the Congressional Assemblies, aud IA,
L>eielative hall. Woman always he
} voted and always will vote. Our srea
srsndfa'hsrs thought they were b,
! their vntes putting Warrington int
the Presidential chair. No. III
, mother, by the principles abe taugh
him and by the habits she inculcateh
! msde him President. II was q Chris
tian mothers hand dropping the bal
! lot when Lord Bacon wrote, and New
, ton philosophical, and Alfred IN
I Great governed, and Jonathan Ed
! wards numbered Of Judgment d
come. How many men there hav
been In high political station VII
J would have boon iusufliclent 10 stan
{ thu tset 10 which their moral prlncI
: pie ives put had II not been for
4 wlie's voice that encouraged them I
|. DO right, aud q wiie's PRAYER this
D sounded louder than the clamor q
. partisapshipl Why, my friends, th
D riRht Of suffrage. 40 we men erercls
4 ", seems 10 be q feeble thing. Yiu,
! Christian man, come mp 10 the ballot
D bnx aud You drop your vote. RICH
D after Won oomes n llber Inc, or q eot
0 tho ofiscouring Of the strest-ind b
I drops his vote. snd his vote counter
!. acts youra But, u In tina quiet q
. home life, q daughter by Der Chrir,ls
Q domeaanr, wife BY her industry,
J. mother by her fAithiulnesa, cas,s
? vote IN the right direction. then moth
. ing can resist II, and the " q uence Z
! tbs, vote will ihrob through the etel
nitiea.
Ne chtal a. wiatv than Il ,ol lha